-The Hindu A letter to the Prime Minister on the importance of a ‘near-universal PDS.' July 21, 2011 Dr. Manmohan Singh Prime Minister of India Respected Prime Minister, We are a group of research scholars and student volunteers who have just spent three weeks surveying the Public Distribution System (PDS) around the country. We are writing to share a few thoughts on the National Food Security Act in the light of this experience. Our survey covered...
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Prof. Reetika Khera interviewed by The Economic Times
Matter begins: What is the impact of the National Rural Employment Guarentee Act on rural wages? That is the question that the pundits are asking today. It's a query which feeds into a larger question. Six years have passed since NREGA became a legal reality. What is its village-level impact? It's a complex question to answer. NREGA undertakes to provide employment to anyone who asks for it. Which makes it...
More »District NREGA slate too clean; no jobs, no demand, no expense either by Pranav Kulkarni
Pune : The Union Government’s advice to states to suspend employment guarantee activities during peak seasons might just be hours old, but the district administration seems to have implemented that much earlier. If the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) 2005 data on website maintained by the National Informatics Centre is to be trusted, the district has not generated any employment over the past two fiscals — 2009-’10 and 2010-...
More »UP babus loot Rs3,700cr rural health funds by Pravin Kumar & Shailvee Sharda
LUCKNOW: In Uttar Pradesh, over Rs 3,700 crore of central health funds may have been systematically looted over the past six years. Many people, including Rahul Gandhi, had spoken of the NRHM bungle, but the size of the scam indicates that not only were officials at the level of CMO and above involved, but also this could not have been carried out without the knowledge and support of their masters....
More »Turning baby girls into boys? The scoop that wasn't by Priscilla Jebaraj
A sensational story in Hindustan Times about surgeons in Indore performing hundreds of sex change operations on children turns out to be false and misleading. An investigation. Last month, a Hindustan Times front page report claiming that Indore doctors were converting hundreds of baby girls into baby boys sent shock waves through the system, with everyone from the Prime Minister's Office to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights...
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